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  1. Re:Yes it's a cheat but steering can inform an ECU on Germany Detects Emissions Cheat Software In Audi Models (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "So steering input can be a good indicator for when a driver is about to do with the throttle. "

    Both throttle changes you just described occur *before* the associated steering changes. So no, the steering input is not a good (leading) indicator.

  2. "If I could see first run moves for $50 I would pay for that in a heartbeat."

    This scheme is explicitly not first run, just slightly sooner than availability on Redbox or Netflix.

  3. Re:Way to price yourselves out of the market on Intel's Massive 18-core Core i9 Chip Starts a Bloody Battle For Enthusiast PCs (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2

    You price an SKU at $1999 to make the $999 SKUs look attractive.

  4. Re:Real Test: Other Countries on US Might Ban Laptops On All Flights Into And Out of the Country (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The notional liquid bombers that led to the prohibition of bottles larger than 100mL never had a formula for an explosive that they could mix up in the cabin. That is why the police in the UK didn't want to arrest them yet, they were not an immanent threat and were more useful as a surveillance target to see who else they talked to.

  5. Re:Worse Than Security Theater! on US Might Ban Laptops On All Flights Into And Out of the Country (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The prohibition is on loose batteries; those installed in their devices have always been acceptable, at least by the letter of the restriction. Furthermore, that restriction came from the ICAO not any government.

  6. Re:Not really taking this seriously are they on US Might Ban Laptops On All Flights Into And Out of the Country (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently our terrorism preparedness consists of watching 12 year old episodes of Spooks.

  7. We in the US should be ashamed that the godless communists in Europe are more efficient at separating consumers from their money.

  8. "So there is no logical reason that Internet-Only should be cheaper than Internet+TV."

    Costs are not prices.

  9. Re:Thunderbolt requires "active" cables - Fail on Intel Drops Thunderbolt 3 Royalty, Adds CPU Integration and Works Closely With Microsoft (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 2

    "They should just use USB C cables"

    All Thunderbolt 3 cables are guaranteed to work as USB-C cables.

  10. Poe's Law Trumps Betteridge's Law

  11. Re:Good thing the FDA is looking out for US on Baking Soda Shortage Has Hospitals Frantic, Delaying Treatments and Surgeries (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    As commerce and trade are not in the FDA's jurisdiction, it should be unsurprising that FDA is not taking any particular action to enforce commerce and trade laws.

  12. Re:As an stupid American... on London City First In UK To Get Remote Air Traffic Control (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    London City (LCY) is the name of the airport, to distinguish it from the other five London airports: London Heathrow(LHR), London Gatwick (LGW), London Luton(LTN), London Stansted(STN), and London Southend(SEN). Of the six, only London City and Heathrow are within the boundaries of Greater London, neither of which are in the City of London.

  13. "It can't replace a whole pile of connectors all at once"

    It can replace any connector on a laptop, including the power connector.

  14. Money where your mouth is on Rising Seas Set To Double Coastal Flooding By 2050, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    If you really think rising sea levels is a fraud, you'd be buying up beach-front property at cents on the dollar from the chumps who believe it.

  15. Max von Sydow, Mads Mikkelsen, and Greg Gundberg aren't white?

    Huge if true!

    (I left out Alan Tudyk who did mo-cap, to avoid the obvious goalpost-moving)

  16. Re:Loony idea on Google's Balloons Connect Flood-hit Peru (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Reality has a well-known loony bias.

  17. Re:Not sure it is good on Google Will Soon Add Job Listings To Search Results (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    When job seeking, a huge time is spent filtering out opportunist recruiters whose positions do not match my profile. I have a PhD in electrical engineering, why are you sending me openings for pastry chefs?

  18. "I don't buy the theory that people stop saving when interest rates get low."

    Here's a though experiment:

    Initially you have $100 to buy some item you value. You banking institution is offering 1% per year simple interest, so if you defer your purchase for 1 year you can have the item and $1.

    Your banking institution then drops their interest rate to -1%. If you defer your purchase for one year you only have $99 and cannot buy the item. Do you buy now or continue saving?

    Yes, the negative interest rate is contrived... except it isn't. Real rates go negative when inflation is higher than nominal rates.

  19. You shouldn't. Those people are invited to take their silly-assed discussion down the hall.

  20. Articles on patents that do not link to patents on Apple Receives Patents For Bezel-Free Display, Touch ID Button Embedded In Screen (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    patentlyapple only links to one of the patents, but at least included the patent numbers for all three patents that they discuss. The other 53 patent numbers are in an image.

    9to5mac can't even be bothered to print any patent numbers.

    For reference

    Reducing the border area of a device: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi... device including finger biometric sensor including transparent conductive blocking areas carried by a touch display and related methods: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi...
    Scanning depth engine: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi...

    This is on top of the breathless bullshit cries that Apple has patented all bezel-less displays (hint: the patent does not claim all bezel-less displays).

  21. Re:Why won't Qualcomm stop selling chips to Apple? on Qualcomm Sues Apple Contract Manufacturers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    a) The products for which Apple has told manufacturers not to pay the royalties are not manufactured by Qualcomm or by manufacturers contracted to Qualcomm. If they were, then the royalties would just be in the price of the products and the dispute would be over direct payments.

    b) If there are other products that Apple is buying that do come from Qualcomm directly, then tying their delivery to a conflict over a different product would fall afoul of anti-trust legislation.

  22. Re:Twitter is in a death-spiral, yawn on Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone Is Returning to the Company (techcrunch.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    "SJW die-hards"

    That's a funny way to spell "white supremacist".

  23. Re:OPUS on MP3 Is Not Dead, It's Finally Free (marco.org) · · Score: 1

    "so it is taking the world by storm (chances are if an app on your smartphone deals with audio, it supports it)
    it's just a very silent storm."

    GP's claim was not that being patent-unencumbered means a high LEVEL adoption but rather that the CHANGE from patent-encumbered to unencumbered means a CHANGE in adoption.

    (I wonder if there is a catch-all name for the error of comparing rates to quantities?)

  24. " you should be able to talk about sex"

    It's not a question of being able to talk about sex, it's being forced to listen to talk about something not related to the job while trying to perform the job.

    Your sex talk has nothing to do with my job, why should I be required to expend the effort to withstand your distraction?

  25. "I bet you still consider the DNC staffer was the victim of a botched robbery, right?"

    Yes, because Seth Rich told police that the perpetrators were actually trying to mug him. If they intended to kill him, they would have made sure he was dead first them made it look like a mugging gone wrong.